Girl, 2, falls to her death from flat window; helper arrested
The two-year-old girl was left unattended in the fifth-floor flat in Yau Ma Tei before the fall
A domestic helper was arrested after a toddler in her care plunged to her death from a fifth-floor flat in Yau Ma Tei while her parents were out yesterday afternoon.
It is the second accident in two weeks in which children had been left unsupervised.
The 21/2-year-old girl had been left unattended when she fell from the window of the family's flat on Canton Road, police said.
The domestic helper reportedly told police she had been in the bathroom while the toddler was sleeping. She was arrested for child neglect and held for questioning.
A week ago, three children were injured when they caused a gas explosion after they had been left home alone.
Five passers-by were also hurt in the incident.
The two brothers and their friend, aged from 11 to 15, were believed to have been trying to cook using a gas lighter over an LPG cylinder.